Review Request: Rent-A-Realtor.com

cbc58 posted this at 12:02 — 18th September 2004.

Joined: Nov 2003

Any and all feedback welcome - especially
concerned with information flow and navigation
for a user visiting the site for the first time.

Site was created by modifying a premade template.

Thanks.

jjm posted this at 16:13 — 19th September 2004.

They have: 5 posts

Joined: Sep 2004

I am new at this, but here is my two cents worth:

1. I think the home page is visually appealing. The colors work well together for me. Also, the page is not cluttered and makes good use of white space.

2. I had no problems navigating through the site.

3. The only problem I had was that I was unable to understand what "Rent a Realtor" was all about just be looking at the home page. I had to naviagte through the FAQ's and services to figure it out. (This was the first I had heard of such a service). Perhaps if you had a brief description/synposis of the services offered listed in the block of white space below the "information" block it would help

pittbug posted this at 00:47 — 20th September 2004.

They have: 18 posts

Joined: Sep 2004

The footer info on the homepage is immediately below the fold. Not sure if this is intentional or not, but since there's a lot of blank space on the homepage, it doesn't make sense to hide that right off the bat.

Not enough text on the homepage. Provide little text snippets of what a user can find within each main nav area. As a first time user, I don't know what "connect" is, or "for professionals".

From a SEO perspective, the only place "realtor" occurs on the homepage is in alt tags and the footer. You probably want a few more than that.

If navigation is successful, then the user should already have an idea of what's on the next page when they click the link. Navigation gets confusing and ppl get lost when something unexpected happens when they click on a link.

You may want to include the main nav in the subpages, so users can move along level2, rather than going back up to the homepage, then back down again.

When I click on services, the header is a different height so the logo moves up. Just a minor issue.

On the connect page, include a piece of text about what the page is for. Don't forget that may be an entry page, so you need to explain to the user what this page is all about.

jgolla posted this at 18:21 — 21st September 2004.

He has: 14 posts

Joined: Sep 2004

Here are some of my suggestions:

On the main page, it would be nice if it all fit into the browser window with out having to scroll. It seems like most of it is just taken up by a graphic. I am using IE6 at 1024x768.
It seems like all of the pages are set up with the site index on the left, except the main page. This seems a little odd to me.
On the main page, you can click on "Hourly - Flat Fee" but not on "Find Agent" on the graphics.
On the info for agents page, you could capitalize the first word of each of your bullet points and make each one of them more sentance like, i.e. using periods. Right now some have periods and some don't.
On the contact page, you could use a form or some other method to allow the user to directly contact you from the webpage.

Most of these are just little things. Besides these items, I like your page. Easy to navigate and find what you are looking for. Lots of good content explaining everything.

I hope this helps,
jay